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	<p class="title">Developing an Information System for MSc Dissertation Projects Management </p>
	<p class="content">Student: Jianping Tian</p>
	<p class="content">Supervisor: Wenjia Wang</p>
	<p class="content">Date: 12 November, 2008</p>
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	<p class="content">Abstract</p>
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		The MSc students project selection procedure in the School of Computer Science has been used for many years. This paper based manual process has taken MSc project organiser and teaching office staff so much time during this period each year. The objective of this project is to design an online dissertation management system which can automate the project selection process, enable effective communication between supervisors and students, and centralise report storage for progress management.
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To achieve this goal, the project follows the information system development
model, starting from the system requirements analysis, to system design,
implementation and testing. The project uses Grails, the cutting edge web
application framework, to develop the system in an agile way.
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